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OFFICIAL NEWSLETTER www.vfwpost10406.org January 2017 - Issue #0117 VFW POST 10406 AND AUXILIARY (608) 248-2733 - [email protected] VFW Post 10406 Cochrane, Wisconsin U.S.A.
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(608) 248-2733 - [email protected] Post 10406 Cochrane, Wisconsin U.S.A.
The Hall is available 7 days a week. Weekdays - Weekends in the mornings, afternoons and evenings. Scheduled rental times are flexible weekdays, weekends the hall rents from 1:00pm-5:00pm during the day or 7pm-11pm at night, it is possible to extend until midnight. Set-up time varies depending on the day and time of the event, usu-ally between 1.5 - 2 hours time is provided, additional set-up time may be available depending on availability. The function hall features 5000 SF of space (50 feet wide by 100 feet long), can host groups up to 200+ people, hand-icap accessible, fully equipped kitchen, dance floor and a private bar. Otheramenities include a wall mounted flat screen, wireless internet, coat rack area andample parking. The Auxiliary will cater for an additional fee depending
on the desired menu or you may bring in your own catering or simply use the available kitchen.
Members - Only $100/dayNon-Members - Only $200/day
The Auxiliary will cater for an additional fee depending on the desired menu.
www.vfwpost10406.org$75 Refundable Cleaning Deposit | Bartender Included For Both Rates
Cash Bar Pricing - $2 beer, $1 pop & water, 1/2 barrel - $150, 1/4 barrel - $100
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Schedule Your Event Today!We offer a reasonably priced rental hall great for weddings, receptions, sweet sixteens,
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V.F.W. Post 10406 will be having their annual Veterans Appreciation Dinner for all Veterans and friends of our Post, hosted by our Post Members and Post Ladies Auxiliary members on Saturday, February 25, 2017. Social hour, with cash bar, will begin at 5:00 pm. A complimentary dinner will be served at 6:00 pm; we will be having roast beef and meat balls with all the trimmings. On this evening we will be honoring our Patriot Pen and Voice of Democracy winners from C-FC Schools. We will also have a program with dinner to end the night. If you plan to attend, please call Gary Krause at 608-248-2017 with your name and how many will be attending. If no answer, please leave your name and the number of attendees on his voice mail. Please confirm your reservation prior to February 17, 2017 as I will need to let the caterer know how many to prepare for.
I would like to thank all our
members and ladies auxiliary members for the past year, for all of your hard work at all of our chicken fry’s, ham and turkey raffle, and all of our other projects as they were all very successful. You may think many of your efforts go unrecognized but I assure you those efforts are noticed!We have had a successful year again with many updates and changes. Some of the highlights include, Officer Elections, 12 monthly meetings, District meetings, the state mid-winter and summer meeting. We have had 7 Chicken Q’s, a golf tournament, and a turkey and gun raffle. We have purchased new padded folding chairs for the VFW hall along with storage and transportation racks for the chairs. We upgraded our walk-in cooler with a new outdoor compressor which is paying off tremendously in savings on our monthly electric bill. We will be replacing and upgrading our bar room furnace to an energy efficient model as further repairs to the old
furnace along with nonexistent parts make that furnace obsolete. We continue to invest in our veterans and community. With that in mind, please take the time to check out our website as it is always growing, www.vfwpost10406.org. Also you may wish to follow on Face Book by joining our Group Page: “V.F.W Post 10406”. Summer will be here before you know it and although we are taking a break temporarily and will not be hosting our golf tournament this year we continue to look for opportunities to support our veterans. Our doors are open and we look forward to seeing you! Happy New Year, I wish you health and prosperity. Krist D. BeselerVFW Post [email protected]
Comrades & SistersCOMMANDERS COMMENTS: Krist Beseler - VFW Post 10406
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Appreciation Dinner for all Members and the Auxiliary to the VFWSaturday, February 25, 2016
Social hour, with cash bar, will begin at 5:00pm.A complimentary dinner will be served at 6:00pm.
What’s New?COMMANDERS COMMENTS: Krist Beseler - VFW Post 10406
We will be replacing and upgrading our bar room furnace to an energy efficient model as further repairs to the old furnace along with nonexistent parts make that furnace obsolete. We continue to invest in our veterans and
community. Check out our website as it is always growing at www.vfwpost10406.org.
Digital Official NewslettersNew Online Newsletter Archives
We have more to do and we are working hard at it. One of our first next projects is posting this letter on our website as it is published quarterly. Some of you may have already seen our digital versions online the past few months. Look for the newsletter to become a permanent part of our website.
www.vfwpost10406.org/newsletters.html
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Post Activities 2017CLUB MANAGER: Gary Krause - VFW Post 10406
JANUARY
January 3rd Scout Meeting
January 10th Belvidere Town Mtg
January 12th VFW/AUX Meeting
7:00pm
January 14thVFW Chicken Fry
January 15th Scout Meeting
January 28th Belvidere Town
Taxes
FEBRUARY
February 7th Scout Meeting
February 9th VFW/AUX Meeting
7:00pm
February 14th Belvidere Town Mtg
February 18thHope Church Pizza
February 19thHope Church Pizza
Pickup
February 25th Post Appreciation/Recognition Dinner
5:00pm Social6:00pm Dinner
February 26th Scout Meeting
MARCH
March 5thLegion Baseball
Chicken Fry
March 7thScout Meeting
March 9thVFW/AUX Meeting
7:00pm
March 11thVFW Chicken Fry
March 14thBelvidere Town Mtg
APRIL
April 1stHofer Racing Chicken Fry
April 4thBelvidere Elections
April 9thFiremans Dinner
April 11thScout Meeting
April 13thVFW/AUX Meeting
7:00pm
April 18thBelvidere Town Mtg
April 22ndVFW Chicken Fry
April 25thCCT Annual Meeting
All calendar events are also online on the VFW Post 10406 websitewww.vfwpost10406.org/calendar.html
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PLEASE ATTEND YOUR Appreciation Dinner, Program, and Recognition of the winners from C-FC that have participated in your VFW sponsored Voice of Democracy (VOD) and Patriots Pen (PP) essay programs. PLEASE get going, get out of the house and get a first rate FREE dinner, share some comraderie and fellowship with fellow Veterans and Sisters---enjoy a well presented patriotic program by Commander Krist and hear some VOD/PP presentations from some outstanding young people. The Post provides this dinner, a free evening out in sincere appreciation of you being a member, working or not, of the VFW or Auxiliary. I PROMISE YOU WILL HAVE NOT ONLY AN ENJOYABLE BUT MOST UPLIFTING EVENING --- AND IT’S FREE!!! YOU WILL LEAVE FEELING MUCH BETTER AS A VETERAN/SISTER AND AMERICAN!!
MEMBERSHIP:Our Post and Auxiliary numbers continue to decline while the number of veterans from the last 15 years of conflicts continues to grow????? Hard to understand that. The long term viability and strength of any organization is in continued strong membership. Membership is all our responsibility! Our little VFW Post and it’ Auxiliary is the kind of organization that we should be proud to invite any eligible person to join. If you know ANYONE who you think might be eligible ask them to join or contact Cmdr Krist or myself and we’ll contact them. Sure, we need workers but people can join with the understanding they will not be pressured to work. There is great strength in numbers in this national organization.
LEGISLATIVE ACTIVITIES:While you all are enjoying our appreciation/recognition dinner on 25 Feb there will be a team of about 500 VFW members in Washington D C dealing with Congress on Veterans issues, primarily funding for veteran’s health care. This is how we, the VFW does it: At least one VFW member from each U S congressional district (8 from Wisconsin), 435 total nationwide have an eye ball to eyeball conference with all of their 435 U S Representatives and 100 Senators to ask and demand their support of specific legislation/funding for veterans health care. While we are doing this our VFW Commander in Chief, Brian Duffy this year, will be stating these same requests to the President of the United States in the oval office. The following day the Armed Services Committees of both Houses (about 40 strong, these are the legislators who will or will not sponsor/support, cause to be passed) sit in a RARE joint session and are addressed formally by our VFW Commander in Chief who restates the needs of veterans, specifically health care. We feel and know that this three pronged approach has been hugely successful in obtaining funding for our Nations 23 million Veterans health care. The influence of our VFW on Capitol Hill is HUGE. When the VFW officially speaks, Congress listens!!!! This is a prime example of just how much a strong membership means. Congressmen are receptive and responsive to an organization that speaks with larger numbers, guess in their minds this may equate to more votes! The VFW has been doing this for nearly 40years, I have had the privilege to be a delegate from Wisconsin VFW for 20 years. I’ll be in D C participating in these activities from 25 Feb thru 2 Mar 2017. Will be thinking of you while you’re at the appreciation/recognition dinner.
2017 Post NewsEDITORS COMMENTS: Al Kochenderfer - VFW Post 10406
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Comrades, we have had a successful year so far in our fundraising activities and have started the 2017 season out with our first Charcoal Chicken & Brats event on the 14th of January. We also had another successful Gun, Ham & Turkey Raffle to help fund our Post 10406 community, youth and scholarship programs that the club supports. Our organization is only as strong as its membership, if you have any veterans that you know that meet the qualifications to become a member or transfer to our post, please bring in their names and contact information. Any request for information on the Quartermasters reports or activities please contact me at [email protected]
Our VFW Auxiliary Post 10406 is a small group, but we work hard to support the many veterans in the Buffalo County area who gave so much for our country. We are proud to serve our Veterans in any way that they need. They gave so much for us and it is an honor to serve them and make sure that the fallen and disabled veterans are never forgotten.
Our monthly meetings are held at the Cochrane-Buffalo City VFW on the 2nd Thursday of each month at 7:00 p.m. and we encourage all to join us.
Our Auxiliary works with the VFW Post in the many projects that they have. We help with the VFW Chicken and Brat Fry, Annual Meat Raffle, Heroes Hunt, community funerals and Fireman’s Dinner. The VFW Auxiliary is proud to march with the VFW in the annual parade that is held on the Fourth of July each year. We stand beside our VFW members on Memorial Day to honor the many fallen comrades and on Veterans Day in the area schools. We also sponsor scholarships to students at the CFC School each year. These students are our future and is an honor to help them with their education.
Our officers for our Auxiliary are Mary Lou Stewart, President; Judy Krause, Sr. Vice President; Debra Kujak, Treasurer; Judy Krause, Secretary; Diane Bossert, Chaplin.
We welcome and encourage all women and men to join our Auxiliary. The VFW Auxiliary is proud to say that we now accept all men who had a spouse, parent, sibling, grandparent or child on foreign soil at time of war. Without out auxiliary’s help, the support for our veterans cannot be done.
We are the land of the free because of the brave. Remember that all gave some, but some gave all. This is our way of showing our support for these heroes.
Fundraising 2017
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QUARTERMASTERS COLUMN: Jim Goss - VFW Post 10406
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Our Back BoneCOMMANDERS COMMENTS: Krist Beseler - VFW Post 10406
“Members, you are our back bone and without you our effort would certainly fail. Your VFW is here for you whenever you choose and in whatever capacity you choose, as a active member, semi active or
inactive. You greatest contribution alone is your continued membership at Post 10406”
Krist Beseler - Commander
POST 10406 -- WANTS YOU!
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I would like to welcome each of you to Post 10406, member, guest, patrons, businesses and organizations, we are here to serve you all! As a volunteer service organization we are unique in that 100% of our efforts are done through volunteer-ism, to better ourselves and our mission. While our club room and facility remain part time and run by our volunteers, our service we provide to the community is full time. As Commander I have been elected and entrusted by our members to represent our organization in a positive light while pursuing our mission goals. Members, you are our back bone and without you our effort would certainly fail. Your VFW is here for you whenever you choose and in whatever capacity you choose, as a active member, semi active or inactive. You greatest contribution alone is your continued membership at Post 10406. I look forward to meeting and serving with you all.
2017 Post Officers
COMMANDERS COMMENTS: Krist Beseler - VFW Post 10406
Krist BeselerPost Officer
Jim GossPost Officer
Steve SchiffliPost Officer
Tom LorenzPost Officer
Gary KrausePost Officer
Al KochenderferPost Officer
Mike StantonPost Officer
Richard MuellerPost Officer
Richard TruePost Officer
Allen FarnerPost Officer
Burt SchafnerPost Officer
Edward RobelskiPost Officer
Lavern EikampPost Officer
All officers and their positions are on the VFW Post 10406 websitewww.vfwpost10406.org/currentofficers.html
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6 History and Core Values
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6 How to Donate
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